SESSION is Mercer Union's event series for workshops, readings, and group discussions.
Artist and filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri invites audiences to collectively unpack and collaboratively explore questions around borders, nationalism, identity, and state-based violence. Prompted by a passage from Harsha Walia’s book Border & Rule and one of Sanzgiri’s own short films, this wide-ranging and informal conversation will look at how the moving image might propose new imaginaries against the grip of ethno-nationalist consolidations of identity-based power. What possibilities does art open up in forming cross-continental solidarity in the face of far-right regimes? How might artists and cultural producers contribute to re/framing these questions towards liberatory horizons through, what activist and scholar Ruth Wilson Gilmore calls, “co-constitutive interdependencies”?

